US EditionFormer OpenAI Board Member Questions Mark Zuckerberg AI Hiring Spree
- Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is leading a massive AI talent recruitment drive targeting OpenAI researchers and other top experts in 2025.
- This hiring spree follows growing competition from Chinese AI firms like DeepSeek and Alibaba, which offer cheaper, customizable models gaining global traction.
- A former member of OpenAI’s board who voted to remove CEO Sam Altman in late 2023 indicated that internal politics and a troubled team environment could impede Meta’s ability to succeed with its recent AI hires.
- Toner expressed skepticism about Meta's strategy, noting that despite offering multi-million dollar salaries, the company will still face efforts by rivals to lure away its AI talent from day one, and that financial incentives alone might not be sufficient to secure long-term success.
- These challenges suggest Meta must move quickly and manage internal dynamics well to retain talent amid intensifying US-China AI rivalry spilling across borders.
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Former OpenAI board member said companies are going to start trying to poach Meta's new AI hires from day one
"It'll be difficult. There's a lot of organizational politics at play," Helen Toner, a former OpenAI board member, on whether Meta's new AI hires will pay off.Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesMeta has been aggressively poaching AI talent from rivals like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.But a former OpenAI board member said "it'll be difficult" for Meta to succeed with its new hires.Helen Toner, who left OpenAI in 2023, said compani…
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Former OpenAI board member questions Mark Zuckerberg AI hiring spree
By Saritha Rai and Haslinda Amin, Bloomberg Meta Platforms Inc.’s lavish multimillion-dollar budget for recruiting top AI talent may not guarantee success, said Helen Toner, former OpenAI board member and director of strategy at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology. The poaching of artificial intelligence researchers from the likes of OpenAI — with salaries in the tens of millions of dollars — and the debut of Meta’s new Supe…
Former OpenAI Board Member Questions Zuckerberg AI Hiring Spree
Meta Platforms Inc.’s lavish multimillion-dollar budget for recruiting top AI talent may not guarantee success, said Helen Toner, former OpenAI board member and director of strategy at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology.
After OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has publicly claimed that Meta will recruit AI researchers with 100 million US dollars, and those affected. (OpenAI, AI)
Former OpenAI board member said companies are going to start trying to poach Meta's new AI hires from day one - Finnoexpert
Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images Helen Toner, a former OpenAI board member, said Meta could start seeing other companies trying to poach back their newly brought in AI talent. left OpenAI’s board in November 2023, said in an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday that Meta will need to show they are “moving fast enough” in the field to retain their new AI hires. stepping up its AI recruitment efforts amid a wider industry search …
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